By Misti Velvet Rainwater
Date: 25 October 1999

Dream Discussions

our oneiric conversations
   early in the morning
   before we brushed
    our teeth
 and had time 
   to dress ourselves
  in our daily defenses
  reminded me
   of when 
 I was 12
   and had a best friend
   to share my 
  dreams & theories with

  that is when
   I felt closest
   to you
 in bed
 in the morning
   talking nonsense
       openly
  like we were
     nothing less
  and nothing more
   than the best
   of friends
  and there 
   was nothing
    to prove
 no war between us
 no line
     in the sand

...two relaxed adults
long past innocence
  but forgetting
     that fact
  for a moment.